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KeithKurson: “We’re working on it.”

From the unique pet names fiasco post.

Tell us a fucking new one. Or better yet, Keith, how about you or someone on your staff actually talk about or show proof or literally anything about all of the Coming Soon shit that’s yet to happen?

The teahouse. The west side Centropolis map. Gardening. New pet profiles. An actual new redraw pet colour (haven’t had one in 5 years, Harvest doesn’t count). Actually making a statement on the unique pet names thread.

Also, do you guys think subeta is making more, less or about the same amount of $$$ as a couple years ago? I think they must be making waaaay more with CWs. 

The same can be said for Shanti:  She’s in a wheelchair because she was involved in human trafficking.  She relates to abandoned beanbags because she was trafficked.  She helps orphaned kids because she was trafficked.  There didn’t seem to be anything beyond that, so again she feels like a token character that exists so we can point at her and say “yes, we have a disabled character.  We’re so inclusive.”

Hey everyone, I had a ton of friends on Subeta and most of them I have no other way of letting them know so I hope you see this here.

My account, Hippogriff, has been frozen. My husband and I share a computer and he hasn’t played Subeta in a long time. He tried to surprise me one day when I came home by making an account to hang out with me online since I love Subeta so much. Unfortunately, he should have said something instead of surprising me.

He already had an account he forgot about (but I remembered) from a couple years ago. Immediately my account and both of his were frozen.

Yes, I submitted a ticket and talked with a moderator but they said there was no way to really confirm anything I was saying.

It really does hurt to lose my pets that I worked so hard on and loved so much. I may come back to Subeta in a couple years on a new account after my suspension but it may hurt too much to come back.

I’m not at all mad at my husband, he was trying to do something sweet and he has felt really bad about the whole thing.

I’ve been waffling between submitting this and not, and now Survival’s here so my irritation has caused me to waffle over the line and post it.

Several months ago I was given a warning for a topic I made on the forums.  The punishment was the warning and that my thread was entirely deleted.  I made a Ticket to inquire about the validity of the punishment (please no side-lining of what the topic was about and whether or not I deserved it, kthx, because I’ll have to argue that I didn’t, and this will just get really side-tracked) and was rebuked.  Then Keith took over and added another punishment:

“… your forum privileges have been revoked by me.”

I asked for how long, because the tone sure sounded like forever.  Reply:

“It’s forever.  You’ve broken our community guidelines enough times on and off-site that we just aren’t interested in having you communicate with other users.”

Keywords to note here:  “and off-site.”

Considering that before this I had exactly one warning (for a PM I sent clumsily attempting to befriend someone, you may remember that debacle but if not again pls no side-line thx), then having only two warnings - and only ONE of them on the forums - really do not equate to having broken community guidelines “enough times” to merit a forever forum ban.  So obviously really what he’s saying is that he reads the Subeta Speaks blog and that’s entirely what he’s punishing me for.  Off-site behavior.  Entirely.

So, apart from the brief lapse-in-judgment I made above to get that second warning, I don’t post on the Subeta Forums.  The only thing I do there is gift-a-person-above threads, because I know my tendency to get in arguments and get banned.  Thus I limited to venting my frustrations here (something I would have never done at all if someone hadn’t attempted to humiliate me here in the first place) and don’t even visit the Subeta forums if I can help it.  I’ve tried to follow Subeta rules rigidly since my first unfair warning and, well… the punishment came anyway.

I found this odd, really, because Keith has always held himself carefully aloof from this blog and never joined in on any side of the crap that comes out of this blog.  You know he reads it, and yet he’s never once commented on any argument, nor any post of mine or about me, as if he values his objectivity and keeps himself above this blog on purpose, recognizing himself as an authority figure who should do just that.  Realizing he was objective was what made me give away my Subeta name when asked, because I knew nothing would come of linking the two accounts.  And yet… here’s the opposite.  Here’s him admitting that it’s my off-site behavior that’s gotten me punished.

Unexpected.  But still, thinking I might have a chance appealing to that objectivity, I wrote a big long thing on the Ticket saying that if Keith was going to take my actions on other sites into consideration while allowing me Subeta privileges, then perhaps he should consider other factors.

I… well, I’m not gonna post it here.  It’s super-long and quite possibly boring, but the essence is that in general I am a good friend and I help people.  (Well, people and animals.  Mostly animals.)  Yes, I argue on Tumblr, but I’m not friggin’ Stalin, is the point of my big long thingamajig.  If you want to punish me simply for being a bad person, consider that I’m not.  That was the argument.

I received no reply and that was the end of that, I guess.  So I’ve lost forum privileges forever for getting in arguments on a site that has no affiliation with Subeta.  Sigh.

Of course, many of you hate me and are probably happy to see me punished for something that has no relation to what I’ve done to piss you off, simply for the sake of that sweet, sweet justice.  But even you must agree, in your heart of hearts, that this is unrelated and thus not justice.  If I cursed out a priest, would it be right that the power company shut off my lights because they witnessed it?  I don’t think so.

So while I don’t expect a leaflet campaign or a boycott of CSC purchasing until my Forum privileges are reinstated, I hope we can all at least agree that this is unfair, because unfairness sticks in my craw.  Banning from this Tumblr or all Tumblrs for arguments I’ve had here?  Fine.  But from Subeta?  Oooh it grinds my gears, unfairness does, even when it happens to enemies that I want to see suffer.

Anyway, the purpose of this post is twofold:

One:  To complain.  Survival is upon us, and being banned from the forums means I cannot participate.  I have a nice cache of candy hearts, luckily, but this still annoys me because they are finite and I may not be so lucky in the next event to have a store of currency from last year.  I want to complain and I am complaining.  Boooo waaah!!

Two:  A warning to the rest of you.  I used to look upon anonymous posters, who post anonymously things like “Fuck Keith and his stupid staff they suck” as, well, a bunch of pathetic cowards.  Who cares if you’re criticizing the staff, it’s not a Subeta site so just do it outright you jackwagons!  Now that I myself have suffered on Subeta for what I’ve done here, well I guess what I’m saying is… holy shit they were right.  The paranoid cowards were right!!  GOD SAVE US ALL.

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And taking that into account, I’m a little concerned I might be outright frozen for this post.  It’s not breaking any rules, but, well… you see how little that matters.  <.<

I’m also feeling really fucking sick and anxious posting this, and losing the resolve even as I type, because while as usual I expect it to go over so that people see my side and sympathize I’m starting to imagine that all I’m going to get is a slew of “suits-you-right"s.  Oh jesus fuck what am I doing, don’t click Submit…

I agree that Keith probably shouldn’t be using offsite activity to justify punishments when that goes against official policy.  They even edited the community guidelines because the first draft mentioned offsite activity, and people weren’t happy with it.

It’s almost like one unnecessary font change messed the entire site up. 

Woops.

Better blame users for not using Custom CSS to fix what I fucked up!

1. Wars (not battle-thons... those don't exist) have always been presented as competitions, pitting players against each other to see who can do the most damage. People battle bosses for 10 hours straight to try to score high.  The two quest-a-thons we've had were explicitly non-competitive, and it doesn't take more than an hour to finish your quests for the day.  If you don't feel your effort is being appropriately rewarded, then either try to motivate your fellow players to help out, or stop trying so hard and try to relax.  You knew what you were getting going into this.